Current Group Members
Faculty
Associate Professor, Department of Astronomy
National Center for Supercomputing Applications
Email: xinliuxl_AT_illinois.edu
Postdoctoral Research Associates
Binary Black Hole
Email: acgross_AT_illinois.edu
Binary Black Hole
Email: junyaoli_AT_illinois.edu
Graduate Students
Spencer HulseyAI for Astro and Astro for AI (co-advised w/ Dr. Kindratenko)
Email: sbh2_AT_illinois.edu
LSSTC Data Science Fellow/LINCC Incubator PI
Machine Learning and Data Science
Email: gmerz3_AT_illinois.edu
Binary and Seed Black Hole
Email: liamjn2_AT_illinois.edu
Undergraduate Students
Yash Ejjagiri
CS+Astro Junior/NCSA SPIN Intern
Machine Learning and Data Science
Email: yse2_AT_illinois.edu
Alums
Yichen Liu, Undergrad Class of 2024 -> PhD @U Arizona
Shreya Majumdar, Undergrad Class of 2024/IDEAS Fellow -> MS in Astrophysics @SBU
Dr. Colin J. Burke, PhD 2023 -> NSF Postdoctoral Fellow @Yale
Dr. Tony Chen, PhD 2023 -> Postdoc @JHU
Yufeng Liu, Undergrad Class of 2023 -> MS in CS @UCSC
Gaby Torrini, MS 2022 -> Developer @TurnellCorp
Franklin Wang, Undergrad Class of 2022 -> PhD @Texas A&M
Dr. Joshua Yao-Yu Lin, PhD 2022 -> Postdoc @Prescient Design
Sneh Pandya, Undergrad Class of 2021 -> PhD @Northeastern U
Anshul Shah, Undergrad Class of 2022/NCSA SPIN Alum
Dr. Wei-Ting Liao, PhD 2020 -> Astro-3D Fellow @U Melbourne
Dr. Hengxiao Guo, NCSA Associate -> Associate Professor @SHAO
Kaiwen Zhang, Undergrad Class of 2020 -> MS @U Chicago
Devanshi Pratap, Undergrad Class of 2020 -> Microsoft
Dr. Meicun Hou, Visiting Student/PhD 2021 Nanjing U -> KIAA Fellow
Dhara Mehta, Undergrad Class of 2018 -> MS in Medical Physics @ECU
Jessica Medintz, Undergrad Class of 2018 -> MS in CS @Loyola
Alexander Dittmann, Undergrad Class of 2018 -> PhD @UMD
Anna Kofman, Undergrad Class of 2017 -> PhD @UPenn
Yang Lyu, Undergrad Class of 2018 -> PhD @UC Berkeley
Dr. Jinyi Shangguan, KIAA/PKU PhD -> Postdoc @MPIA